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The chances of something like this happening to you are pretty small. It’s much more likely that you’ll be killed in a car crash or similar. Pretty much by def
by mikeash 9y ago
The chances of something like this happening to you are pretty small. It’s much more likely that you’ll be killed in a car crash or similar.
Pretty much by definition, something that makes the news isn’t something you should worry about. If it happened often enough to be a serious threat then it wouldn’t be newsworthy. (E.g. car crashes.)
- DanBC 9y agoBut mass shootings don't make the US news. There are very many shootings of two or more people (and weirdly that doesn't count as mass) that make maybe a paragraph or two in a local paper.
- mikeash 9y agoIf they don’t count as mass shootings, how are they mass shootings that don’t make the news?
- DanBC 9y agoBut even the mass shootings aren't making the news. There are loads of "4 or more people shot" that get almost no coverage. And the fact that "2 people killed" doesn't count as a mass shooting is weird.